Giving Feedback

If you’re a writer, you’ll know the practice of critiquing other writers’ drafts — and having your own manuscript workshopped.

If you’re a reader, you’ll have noticed writers speaking of “alpha readers” and “beta readers”. Perhaps you’ve noticed long Acknowledgments sections in their novels thanking people who’ve read their drafts and made suggestions and given feedback. Us writers all do it… Well, we do if we want our works to be worth reading in the end. Because the practice is one way of honi...